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Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)
By Kola Ojoodide, 26 June 2026
Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to...
Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: is dqlite affected?
By Alberto Carretero, 25 June 2026
This article was written by Marco Manino and Alberto Carretero, dqlite team at Canonical. 1. Anatomy of a SQLite bug Recently SQLite published a new version...
Anbox Cloud on C4A metal: Android, at scale, without friction
By Bertrand Boisseau, 24 June 2026
Why C4A metal is a great place to run Android and why Anbox Cloud makes that practical. If you’ve spent even a small portion of time working with Android...
Canonical announces live kernel patching for Arm64
By Rajan Patel, 23 June 2026
Canonical Livepatch now officially supports Arm64, further expanding its security patching automation capabilities. For the first time, Ubuntu on an Arm64...
How to use RISC-V custom instructions with Ubuntu
By Jon Taylor, 22 June 2026
Introduction My previous blog talked about the importance of instruction set standardization for ecosystem stability and growth through the use of profiles....
Ubuntu Summit 26.04: connected by open source
By ilvipero, 22 June 2026
What an incredible experience! Ubuntu Summit 26.04 has officially drawn to a close, but the energy from our global community is still buzzing – in the...
So you need to add microcontrollers to your fleet: now what?
By Jonathan Beri, 18 June 2026
Your Ubuntu Core fleet is running beautifully. OTA updates roll out in minutes. Every device is strictly confined, cryptographically attested, and carrying a...
Validating real-world skills through Canonical Academy
By Ishani Ghoshal, 17 June 2026
In an increasingly volatile job market, standing out from the competition is vital. For many in the open source community, formal recognition for self-taught...
Virtualized Android comes to Anbox Cloud
By Bertrand Boisseau, 17 June 2026
With our latest 1.30.0 Anbox Cloud release, available today, we are introducing one of the most significant evolutions of the platform to date: support for...
Template: Streamlining open source design contributions
By Nina Rojc, 16 June 2026
As designers working at Canonical, we’re always thinking about open source. We believe that encouraging more designers to contribute to open source benefits...
Beyond Mythos: responding to a new threat landscape
By Lech Sandecki, 16 June 2026
Canonical’s security philosophy has always been built on the premise that vulnerabilities exist and will be discovered. Our response relies on...